In an example, a first metadata tag and a second metadata tag are added to first Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of a first user handled by a first application. The first PII is to be part of call home data captured from a hosting system. The first metadata tag may be indicative of security rules to be complied with for the first application and the second metadata tag may be indicative of security rules to be complied with for the first user. The first PII, the first metadata tag, and the second metadata tag may be protected and transmitted to a data processing center. The transmission may be in response to a determination to transmit the call home data.
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4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first metadata tag comprises information of an authorization level for the first application, a type of first application, a level of sensitivity for the first application, permitted usage for the first application, and an encryption level for the first application.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second metadata tag comprises information of at least one of location and citizenship of the first user.
6. The method of claim 1, comprising determining a portion of the call home data for which the first metadata tag is to be applied based on a specification by an owner of the first application, wherein the portion of the call home data comprises the first PII.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the call home data is one of telemetry data, inventory data, alarm data, and core dump data.
8. The method of claim 1, comprising protecting the first PII and the first metadata tag using at least one of digital signature-based protection and encryption.
10. The method of claim 9, comprising protecting, by the data processing center, the first PII using at least one of: an access control list (ACL), an encryption level, configuration of expiry date of the first PII, a sanitization mechanism, and anonymization.
11. The method of claim 1, comprising receiving the first security rules from an owner of the first application along with service level agreement (SLA) parameters for the first application.
15. The system of claim 12, wherein the tag comprises information of authorization level for the first application, the type of first application, level of sensitivity for the first application, permitted usage for the first application, an encryption level for the first application, location of the first user and citizenship of the first user.
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January 23, 2020
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